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Gemini Award-winning reporter David Akin is the National Affairs Correspondent for Canwest News Service and is based at the CNS Parliamentary Bureau in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.
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Friday, September 15

Auto worker MP reflects on Ford cuts

by DavidAkin on Fri 15 Sep 2006 05:08 PM EDT

Conservative MP Jeff Watson (left) represents the Windsor-area riding of Essex. Watson is the first auto worker to ever be elected to the House of Commons. He turned to politics after being laid off by Chrysler when it closed down its Pillette Road plant in Windsor. After the meeting of ... more »

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Tanks, more soldiers to be sent to Afghanistan

by DavidAkin on Fri 15 Sep 2006 02:36 PM EDT

In about 30 minutes or so, General Rick Hillier, the chief of defence staff, will confirm that Canada will indeed send a squadron of Leopard tanks, an infantry company from the VanDoos at Valcartier, and some other specialized CF members to Afghanistan. When it’s all done, Canada will boost ... more »

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Conservative caucus meets - what about those guns?

by DavidAkin on Fri 15 Sep 2006 10:41 AM EDT

As they filed into Room 237-C in the House of Commons Centre Block for their caucus meeting this morning, Conservative MPs and Senators didn't want talk much about the gun registry and other gun-related issues. We asked as many as we could about their reaction to the tearful pleas of ... more »

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